SC - Great Celebration in Atlantia

[david friedman]

>Not to leave out another of our correspondents, Lady Olwen and her
>Bright Hills Cooks Guild will be preparing the food for the Queen's Tea,
>to be held on Saturday morning.  That should be quite an event in
>itself...I've been around for one of their setups, and it is not only
>delicious food, but beautiful as well.

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>Kiri

It isn't, of course, Kiri's fault (nor, probably, Olwen's), but this 
pushes one of my buttons. "Tea" as a drink is either very late period 
or out of period for western Europe. "Tea" as the name of a social 
occasion is more than a century out of period; as best I recall the 
term first appears in the 18th century. It is entirely appropriate 
for regency recreation, and wildly inappropriate for the SCA.
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David/Cariadoc
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